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Estuardo Bolaños
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• JAPAN

• Japan is the eleventh most populous

country in the world, as well as one
of the most densely populated and
urbanized. About three-quarters of
the country's terrain is mountainous,
and it concentrates its population of
126 million on narrow coastal plains.
It is divided into forty-seven
administrative prefectures and eight
traditional regions, including the
Tokyo metropolitan area, the most
populous metropolitan area in the
world, with more than thirty-seven
million residents.
• Japan has been inhabited since the
Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC), though the
first written mention of the archipelago appears in a
Chinese chronicle (the Book of Han) finished in the
2nd century AD. Between the 4th and 9th centuries,
the kingdoms of Japan became unified under
an emperor and the imperial court based in
Heian-kyō. Beginning in the 12th century, political
power was held by a series of military dictators (
shōgun) and feudal lords (daimyō) and enforced by
a class of warrior nobility (samurai). After
a century-long period of civil war, the country was
reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate,
which enacted an isolationist foreign policy. In
1854, a United States fleet forced Japan to
open trade to the West, which led to
the end of the shogunate and
the restoration of imperial power in 1868.
In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan
adopted a Western-modeled constitution and
pursued a program of industrialization and
modernization. Amidst a rise in militarism
and overseas colonization, Japan
invaded China in 1937 and entered
World War II as an Axis power in 1941. After
suffering defeat in the Pacific War and
two atomic bombings, Japan surrendered in
1945 and came under a seven-year
Allied occupation, during which it adopted a
new constitution and began
a military alliance with the United States.
Under the 1947 constitution, Japan has
maintained a unitary parliamentary
constitutional monarchy with a bicameral
legislature, the National Diet.
• Japan is a developed country and a great power. It is a
member of numerous international organizations,
including the United Nations, G20, OECD, and the
Group of Seven. Its economy is the world's
third-largest by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by
PPP, with its per capita income ranking at 36th
highest in the world. Although Japan has renounced its
right to declare war, the country maintains
Self-Defense Forces that rank as one of the world's
strongest militaries. After World War II, Japan
experienced record growth in an economic miracle,
becoming the second-largest economy in the world by
1972 but has stagnated since 1995 in what is referred
to as the Lost Decades. Japan has the world's highest
life expectancy, though it is experiencing a population
decline. A global leader in the automotive, robotics
and electronics industries, the country has made
significant contributions to science and technology.
The culture of Japan is well known around the world,
including its art, cuisine, film, music, and
popular culture, which encompasses prominent manga
, anime and video game industries.
• Japan has the world's third-largest economy
by nominal GDP, after that of the United
States and China; and the
fourth-largest economy by PPP. As of 2020,
Japan's labor force is the world's eighth-largest
, and consists of 66.5 million workers.[76] As of
2021, Japan has a low unemployment rate of
around 2.8%.[151] Its poverty rate is the second
highest among the G7 nations,[152] and exceeds
15.7% of the population.[153] Japan has the
highest ratio of public debt to GDP among
advanced economies,[154] with national debt
estimated at 248% relative to GDP as of 2022.
[155]
The Japanese yen is the world's third-
largest reserve currency after the US dollar
and the euro.[156]
• from around 30,000 BC constitutes the first known
habitation of the islands of Japan.[16] This was
followed from around 14,500 BC (the start of the
Jōmon period) by a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-
sedentary hunter-gatherer culture characterized by
pit dwelling and rudimentary agriculture.[17]
Clay vessels from the period are among the oldest
surviving examples of pottery.[18] From around 700
BC, the Japonic-speaking Yayoi people began to
enter the archipelago from the Korean Peninsula, [19]
[20][21]
intermingling with the Jōmon;[21] the
Yayoi period saw the introduction of practices
including wet-rice farming,[22] a new
style of pottery,[23] and metallurgy from China and
Korea.[24] According to legend, Emperor Jimmu
(grandson of Amaterasu) founded a kingdom in
central Japan in 660 BC, beginning a
continuous imperial line.[25]
Geographi
• Japan comprises 6852 islands extending along the
Pacific coast of Asia. It stretches over 3000 km
(1900 mi) northeast–southwest from the Sea of
Okhotsk to the East China Sea.[72][73] The country's
five main islands, from north to south, are
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and
Okinawa.[74] The Ryukyu Islands, which include
Okinawa, are a chain to the south of Kyushu. The
Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main
islands of Japan. Together they are often known as
the Japanese archipelago.[75] As of 2019, Japan's
territory is 377,975.24 km2 (145,937.06 sq mi).[1]
Japan has the sixth-longest coastline in the world
at 29,751 km (18,486 mi). Because of its far-flung
outlying islands, Japan has the eighth-largest
exclusive economic zone in the world, covering
4,470,000 km2 (1,730,000 sq mi).[76][77]
• Those were a part of everything • The Japanese are very eco-
that is Japan, I chose this friendly and try not to waste any
country because it is one of my resources. After all it is a country
favorite countries made up of islands. For this
reason, in some public baths in
Japan, the water used to wash
hands is later reused for flushing
the toilet.
• The Japanese say thank you for
everything. ...The Japanese don't
waste a drop of water. ...They
take off their shoes when
entering the house. ...The
Japanese are the kings of
recycling. ...And nothing to
throw the garbage in the
street. ...Japanese children clean
the school. ...They have a name
for hospitality. ...The Japanese
get up early to exercise.